Joe Biden skipped the NATO dinner Tuesday night and went back to his hotel. He was too tired. That’s one of he downsides of the leader of the free world being 80-years-old. He’s too tired to do the job.

His staff made excuses for the unusual turn of events. They said he has four full days of work and he has a speech to prepare. He has only been in Europe since Sunday. He enjoyed a weekend at his Delaware beach house. Most Americans work at least a five-day week. Isn’t the president expected to put in long hours? Oh well. So much for America is back, eh? Those dinners aren’t just a time to have a nice meal. It’s when conversations happen between world leaders and relationships are formed. Granted, Biden is too dazed and confused to know with whom he is speaking most of the time but it just looks bad for the American president to take a pass on an official dinner with other world leaders that make up a military alliance.

Good old Joe, the man who wants to pretend to be a humble public servant, was bragging to Turkish President Recep Erdogan he would win re-election. He told Erdogan that he would be working with him for the next five years. I shudder to even think about that. Joe Biden loves to puff himself up, especially on the world stage, but then we see videos of other leaders leading him around to where he needs to be. It’s embarrassing.

Earlier on Tuesday, Erdogan thanked the US president for congratulating him after his own election – which went to a runoff that had some officials contemplating a less strenuous relationship with Turkey, after it used its strategic position to maintain ties with Russia.

‘Thank you. I look forward to being with you in the next five years, Mr. President,’ Biden said.

Erdogan had called his meeting with Biden a ‘step forward,’ and made reference to his own five-year term.

‘And with the forthcoming elections, I would like to take this opportunity to also wish you the best of luck,’ said Erdogan.

Turkish President Erdoğan: "Now you are getting prepared with the forth coming election and I would like to take the opportunity to wish you the very best of luck."

Biden: "I look forward to meeting with you the next five years." pic.twitter.com/9eaROE17Ab

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Biden takes a photo with the NATO secretary general and the Lithuanian president, then struggles to figure out where to go to next pic.twitter.com/YfeBzpwZeT

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Why isn’t Jill Biden at the NATO summit? Other wives of world leaders are there.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena led the dignitaries on the first night of the summit in Vilnius.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were also in attendance alongside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Hmm.

Biden’s aides said that he made some phone calls when he ditched the dinner and went back to the hotel. He wanted to show his concern about the severe flooding in Vermont. He spoke with Vermont Governor Phil Scott, Senator Bernie Sanders, and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. He said Vermont would get whatever federal assistance it neede to respond to the flooding.

I hope that was too exhausting for him.

Biden is ignoring the press covering the summit, just as he does at home. He gives reporters a blank stare when they shout questions during press opportunities with other leaders.

Have no fear, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin was Biden’s wingman for the press on Tuesday. He dragged Trump into it, because, of course, he did.

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, a Biden ally, talked up the diplomatic breakthrough in Vilnius, telling DailyMail.com there was a ‘serious question’ when Biden got sworn in about whether the alliance was viable after Trump.

Durbin said an alliance that was ‘faltering’ was now a ‘strong, viable, credible operation’ with Finland a member and Sweden seeking to join.

Asked if Biden was bringing something home, he responded: ‘He certainly is. It’s significant. It’s historic.’

Here’s the thing – Trump forced our NATO allies to get current on their dues. That is something previous American presidents didn’t bother to do. So, the United States continued to pick up the slack. Trump said if they wanted America to continue its level of support, then pay up what they pledged to pay. To leftists like Durbin, that is putting NATO’s viability in question. What a maroon.

As far as yet another claim of Biden accomplishing something tht is “historic”, well, I don’t think that means what he thinks it does. Biden has had historic markers during his term in office but they’ve all been bad. It’s nothing to brag about.